Information From Joyce's Place Names

Subdivisions and measures of land. Among a people who followed the double occupation of tillage and pasturage, according as the country became populated, it would be divided and subdivided, and parcelled out among the people; boundaries would be determined, and standards of measurement adopted. The following was the old partition of the country, according to Irish authorities: - There were five provinces: Leinster, Ulster, Connaught, Munster, and Meath, each of which was divided into trich-céds (thirty hundreds or trichas, Meath conaining 18, Connaught 30, Ulster 36, Leinster 31, and Munster 70; each tricha contained 30 Baile-bia-tach, 12 seisreachs. The division into provinces is still retained with some modification, but the rest of the old distibution is obsolete. The present subdivision is into provinces, counties, baronies, parishes, and townlands; in all Ireland there are 325 baronies, 2,447 parishes, and about 64,000 townlands. Various minor subdivisions and standards of measurement were adopted in different parts of the country; and so far as these are represented in our present nomenclature, I will notice them here.

Townland Information

What is a townland?:

A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169

Townland:

Kade is a townland.

Information From Maps

Original OS map of this area.(Click on place name to view original map in new window.):

Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.(This information will display in a new window.)

Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)

Kade is in the civil parish of Clonbern.

Roman Catholic parishes:

This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.

Clonbern & Kilkerrin

Church of Ireland parishes:

This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.

Clonbern

In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.

Other Sources

Information from the Logainm database. (This information will display in a new window.):